Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics/revert/restore shellscript and how-to.

2010-04-16 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Fred, Have you read the ZFS On Disk Format Specification paper at: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf? Ifred pam wrote: Hi Richard, thanks for your time, I really appreciate it, but I'm still unclear on how this works. So uberblocks po

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tuning the ARC towards LRU

2010-04-05 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, In simple terms, the ARC is divided into a MRU and MFU side. target size (c) = target MRU size (p) + target MFU size (c-p) On Solaris, to get from the MRU to the MFU side, the block must be read at least once in 62.5 milliseconds. For pure read-once workloads, the data won't to the M

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hex dump diagrams?

2010-03-26 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Richard, Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:45 PM, John Bonomi wrote: I'm sorry if this is not the appropriate place to ask, but I'm a student and for an assignment I need to be able to show at the hex level how files and their attributes are stored and referenced in ZFS. Are

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hex dump diagrams?

2010-03-26 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, You might take a look at http://www.osdevcon.org/2008/files/osdevcon2008-max.pdf and http://www.osdevcon.org/2008/files/osdevcon2008-proceedings.pdf, starting at page 36. Or you might just use "od -x file" for the file part of your assignment. Have fun. max Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Fri,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL corrupt, not recoverable even with logfix

2009-12-10 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi James, I just spent about a week recovering about 10TB of file data for someone who encountered a (somewhat?) similar problem to what you are seeing. If you are still having problems with this, please contact me off-list. Regards, max James Risner wrote: It was created on AMD64 FreeBSD wit

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs improvements to compression in Solaris 10?

2009-08-04 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Bob, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Prabahar Jeyaram wrote: You seem to be hitting : http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6586537 The fix is available in OpenSolaris build 115 and later not for Solaris 10 yet. It is interesting that this is a simple th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best ways to contribute WAS: Fed up with ZFS causing data loss

2009-07-31 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Ross, Ross wrote: #3 zfs unlike other things like the build system are extremely well documented. There are books on it, code to read and even instructors (Max Bruning) who can teach you about the internals. My project even rganized a free online training for this Again, brilli

[zfs-discuss] raidz on-disk layout

2009-04-09 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, For anyone interested, I have blogged about raidz on-disk layout at: http://mbruning.blogspot.com/2009/04/raidz-on-disk-format.html Comments/corrections are welcome. thanks, max ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real Swap space & vmstat output

2009-03-07 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, iman habibi wrote: Hi to All I defined 2G for swap space in installation solaris 10 with zfs file system,,but when i run vmstat it shows about 3G is free!.why this happend?! My Real memory is 4G. Can anybody guide this,,im confused! # vmstat 10 kthr memorypage